Suzanne Simard recounts her career as a forest ecologist and presents her research showing that trees connect and exchange resources through fungal mycelial networks.

Godkiller is a 2023 fantasy novel by Hannah Kaner that focuses on friendships tested within an adventurous, high-stakes conflict. The setup orients around a group relationship dynamic driving a dangerous mission or confrontation, with emotional loyalty and survival pressure forming the central tension.

Set among college students, the novel follows a young woman navigating romantic choices and the pressures of attraction, commitment, and reputation. Social life, flirtation, and the consequences of dating decisions create the central interpersonal tension that drives scenes and character decisions.

A contemporary coming-of-age romance about a Black woman navigating life after a major relationship and the pressures of adulthood. The novel follows her emotional recovery, shifting priorities, and evolving sense of self as she confronts family expectations, professional identity, and new romantic possibilities.

After their parents die suddenly, a sister returns to handle estate matters and clashes with her estranged brother over how to dispose of the family home and belongings. Tensions among extended relatives, funeral choices, and the decision to clear out the house collide with uncanny occurrences tied to the property.

A formally inventive novel that stages an Asian American life through the language and beats of television scripts, focusing on how roles and stereotypes shape a character’s ambitions and relations.

A group of older, formerly professional killers—now ostensibly retired—are pulled into a dangerous sequence of events when a job and its fallout force them to act. The book follows their attempts to manage threats, reckon with past choices, and protect one another while outside forces close in.

Lakewood focuses on a near-future or altered-present community shaped by medical research and its social consequences. The plot pressure arises from ethically fraught experiments and their effects on Black women and community trust.

In an isolated northern chateau, a baron’s doctor dies under suspicious circumstances and the Interprovincial Medical Institute sends a replacement. The Institute is revealed to have colonized physicians' minds across generations while tending the remnants of humanity.